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u/thumpetto007 2d ago
i already say "i love you" to myself , but ill add the response next time :) how cute
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u/LanceFree 2d ago
Do you love yourself?
Do you think you’re grand?
When you got to movies, do you hold your hand?
Do you love yourself?
Do you think you’re great?
And when you get fresh,
Do you slap your face?
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u/Budsygus 2d ago
Little kids are just so darn precious.
Not the same at all, but around this same age my daughter wanted to race me up the stairs but she wanted to do the countdown. So she yells at the top of her lungs "THREE TWO ONE ZERO NOTHING BLASTOFF!" and takes off like a bat out of hell.
I couldn't breathe I was laughing so hard. She won the race.
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u/LilyPink5361 2d ago
The best part is the absolute confidence they don't care whether the countdown makes sense, they're already halfway up the stairs before anyone can object.
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u/Character-Toe-443 2d ago
That’s the magic of kids, they don’t ask if it makes sense, they just say it and suddenly it is a family tradition.
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u/backupbitches 2d ago
Maybe don't
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u/AdmirableFace2815 1d ago
Close friends only- not at a work icebreaker or with anyone who would be offended. And, I’d explain the context. 🙂 Yeah… It’ll probably never happen.
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u/itsyourlife007 2d ago edited 2d ago
This is darling. I hope she keeps that forever. I saw a video with a little girl explaining how she hugs herself when she feels sad.
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u/blastbomberboy 2d ago
An adorable little schizophrenic 🥰
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u/Mundane_Read_2960 2d ago
When you consider how our brains are two separate entities, and toddlers are still sorting that shit out, that makes this way more adorable.
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u/thissexypoptart 2d ago
Brains are not two separate entities. The fact that they have hemispheres and people can live brain-function-reduced lives when the corpus callosum is severed doesn’t mean the brain is two separate things.
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u/AspieAsshole 2d ago
Yeah, I consider my brain and my body to be separate entities, but not my brain and itself lol
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u/thissexypoptart 2d ago
Right. Some people get this idea from pop psychology and historical myths—seriously, like there’s one alleging people 5000 years ago didn’t have as much communication between hemispheres and mistook their own thoughts for gods—that the brain is two entities tenuously merged together by the part in the middle I mentioned in my last comment. It’s strange.
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u/Mundane_Read_2960 2d ago
tbf when you consider that nutrition directly helps support the bonds within the corpus callum, this theory makes more sense.
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u/StuntHacks 2d ago
But how do you explain split-brain patients, and their behavior in experiments? Genuinely curious
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u/OrderOfThePenis 2d ago
The fact that both sides of your body can act independently when it is severed would suggest otherwise
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u/Szwejkowski 2d ago
It is weird that they can have different favourite colours and stuff though.
Kind of explains why we can often hold two completely opposing ideas and give weight to them both at the same time.
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u/Good_day_to_be_gay 2d ago
Biology is my major. Humans do indeed have two brains, one of which cannot speak but can transmit thoughts.
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u/Async0x0 2d ago
When you consider how our brains are two separate entities
Do you wanna elaborate on that or are you just going to leave us hanging
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u/WisdomInMyPocket 2d ago
Why would you call this beautiful gesture schizophrenic?
Self-love is the most important thing to have in ones life. People who don't love themself are the ones who can become schizophrenic. Distancing from their traumatic and hurt selfs.
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u/This_Acanthisitta_43 2d ago
Because this is Reddit, half the comments are grammar and spelling flexes and the other half are trying to be funny.
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u/NTaya 2d ago
Painful schizophrenia, where people here voices/demons/aliens telling them to do terrible things, is actually a relatively modern Western thing. There were observations that in other communities, positive schizophrenia symptoms (positive = there's something that shouldn't be there, like voices; not the same as "good", obviously) are often spirits gently guiding them, causing a lot less distress.
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u/iminlovewithbadthing 2d ago
*person with dissociative identity disorder (DID)
schizophrenia is a disorder coming with psychosis: hallucinations, delusions, erratic thought patterns, depression in between episodes etc. Different degrees of course, but often the episodes are very disruptive to people's lives. There are different things that can cause psychosis/schizophenia but there is a strong genetic component.
DID is what you are thinking of when there are multiple experiences of a separate self in the same body. While of course a person in a body with DID could become psychotic, like any other person, its very rare for that to happen, so people with DID are typically not delusional and some can function normally (I don't know if there is any data on % of people with DID who are functional vs not, it's also often missed, there is an older study that the average person with DID takes 10 years between first seeing a mental health professional and getting the correct diagnosis). The cause of DID is known, it only occurs in people with severe early childhood trauma, the age cutoff is debated, somewhere between before 6 to before 9.
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u/aeonasceticism 1d ago
That is not nice. Schizophrenia is very painful and alienating and assuming without proof is harmful.
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u/Merijeek2 2d ago
Oh, sure, it's cute now, but when it's Barry talking to Other Barry suddenly it's creepy.
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u/Odbody_AS2 2d ago
Oh fuck off Rebecca he did not say that
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u/Ne0n_R0s3 2d ago
Yeah cuz nothing eveeerr happens. We all know 3 year olds are just sacks of meat who can't speak for themselves.
I work with 3 year olds by the way, and if you don't believe they'd say this, I have some news for you.
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u/Objective-Tea-3070 2d ago
i'd never be comfortable putting something that private and intimate about my child on the internet
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u/itsallmeaninglessto 2d ago
Because you are normal. And don’t make up lies for likes on the internet
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u/Puzzled-Mushroom8050 2d ago
When my son was little, I went in to his room to kiss him good night and he said, "Mom, I was laying here listening to myself LIVE!" It was precious.
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u/Frequent_Deal_5371 2d ago
When I was a kid, I would kiss my parents goodnight, then I would feel bad and include my uncles, aunts, cousins, grandparents and send a kiss in the air, then I would feel bad and include the whole world. At the end, I would say "Goodnight myself" and send a tiny kiss to my heart. It was weird but cute.
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u/golchezgio 2d ago
Oh lord. I thought I was the egoist crazy telling that tells that to him every now and then
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u/These-Brilliant7521 2d ago
that's honestly so sweet, it's wild how kids can teach us about self-love like that. definitely a reminder to love ourselves more!
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u/Froynboy 2d ago
One of the habits I got into when rising above the waterline of depression was to say this to myself. It was a way of expressing love to the part of myself that kept me down and spoke negatively. It was almost a truce that I didn't hate it and that it kept nagging at me out of fear and anxiety.
Never underestimate the power of self talk.
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u/Busy_Bite_9425 2d ago
That girl has more selflove at such a young age then most grown adults. Hope she stays that way. ❤️
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u/Live-Habit-6115 2d ago
Should be "goodnight, me" not "goodnight, myself"
Smh Jenny better start teaching that three year old some grammar!
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u/pipmentor 2d ago
I'll take, "Things that Never Happened for a Thousand," Alex.
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u/Doctor731 2d ago
You ever spend time around a 2-3 year old? It is crazy what their brains put together. Almost makes the lack of sleep worth it.
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u/Austral_Owl 2d ago edited 2d ago
Nothing tops the time my niece (3 or 4 years old) asked my sister-in-law who the woman in Grandpa's room was. Grandpa overheard her and said that she had probably seen his mother (my niece's great-grandmother). He added that she comes to visit him from time to time.
The woman they were talking about had been dead for over 25 years. My niece and her Grandpa talked about it as if it were the most normal thing in the world... my sister-in-law just wanted to get out of the house. Apparently, she had no desire to see her grandmother again.
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u/Grenflik 2d ago
Man, I need that kind of energy right now. Lost my job of 15 years at the end of February and it’s tough out there, hard not being ashamed and hating myself.
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u/ANakedCowboy 2d ago
This is cute until she responds "I love you more," to which she replies, "No, I love you more." And she stays up all night trying to get the last I love you in. Kids can't beat themselves at that game, you always need an older person in there to stop trying to win, a kid won't quit. The Many-Faced God may step in if it gets too serious.
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u/FirmAmbition 2d ago
Every night I have my two sons I ask each of them “who loves you more than your dad?” The “correct” answer is nobody, but often times they will say mom, or my new wife’s name, or a cousin or friend. I always encourage them because I want them to feel loved and supported. My oldest son has been replying with myself. It’s a level of self love I have never been able to have for myself and I love that he loves himself. It’s always reassuring when he’s confident like this.
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u/Right_Jacket128 2d ago
My little 16 month old girl has started giving kisses to things she likes, and recently when she sees a picture of herself she’ll give herself a big kiss. It makes me so happy to see her love herself, and I’ll move mountains to make sure she doesn’t lose that.
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u/MrBogard 2d ago
My inner monologue is problematic because most my thoughts end with, "No, you hang up."
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u/SubArcticTundra 2d ago
Nah its still easy at 3. The things that take it from you come further down the road
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u/Interesting-Ant-6357 2d ago
lol when I do good at something I tell myself “good job!” And i really really mean it.
I feel a huge sense of pride and it feels the same as if a loved one said good job. I’m my favorite cheerleader :)
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u/user1324578 2d ago
I watch too many damn horror movies. I expected this to take a supernatural turn like whose voice was that😂
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u/Lucky_Record_376 2d ago
Does nobody else thinks that only a child who has no one would think like this ? I don't know i have cptsd so it feels so familiar.
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u/Then_Box-8031 1d ago
That is so Sweet. I hope she always loves herself and stays curious. It takes great parents, family and friends for a child to know she's worth loving.
Congratulations.
Hug yourself
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u/Enough-Bunch505 2d ago
I have to tell my inner child to stop crying. It keeps complaining about all the injustice we have experienced, the cancer caused by a chemical company too big to sue, the pain we are in from the treatments and having all my joints replaced, all the bullying we experienced growing up, and the memory of caring for multiple family members as they died (dad's als, aunts stavation and suicide, grandmothers dimentia, and now mom's dimentia). Come to think of it, it was much more active before my sepsis (from one of those joint replacements), followed by multiple days where my pain was unmanaged, followed by doctors trying to fix the night staffs fuck ups of not prescribing me anything for my post surgery pain, and then subsequent stay at a nursing home/rehab I thought I was going to die in (food that tasted like cigarette ashes, rooms that were so cold I needed to wear a winter jacket and multiple blankets even though I said I was too cold, recieving double doses of the same kind of medication multiple days in a row). Tbf I left that nursing home with panic attacks and found out there was no hope for me to sue for what I experiance (im poor), so now there is just the occasional gutteral scream and random bouts of crying as I accept that there is no justice in this world for poor people like myself as I wait for death so I can finally receive the promises jesus had for poor people like myself. Until then I just kind of bare with the occasional outburst and wait for the hope for justice in this life to fade from my inner child finally.
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